What is it about?
This article argues that the reason why peace making and nation building has not worked in the Central African Republic (CAR) is that the approaches used so far have been foreign, managed by actors who have little knowledge (or desire to have knowledge) of local conflict conditions and peacemaking norms.
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Why is it important?
The article is important because it identifies a problem in peacemaking and nation building in the CAR. Not only that, it proposes a problem. Not only that, it proposes a problem that privileges peacemaking roles of those who suffer the impact of conflicts most, the local peoples and communities. Yet, this is not to say that external actors are unnecessary. This is to say that external actors should play a complementary role. The hybrid approach comes from a mixture of local initiatives and external interventions.
Perspectives
I think the arguments in this article do not only apply forcefully to the case of the CAR, it is also instructive in regards to other countries and regions in Africa and elsewhere.
Muhammad Dan Suleiman, PhD
University of Western Australia
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This page is a summary of: Liberal Peace Intervention in the Central African Republic: Limitations and Reworking a “Hybrid” Order, African Security, December 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/19392206.2016.1270138.
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